A raft of worthwhile conversations emerged in numerous posts this week:
- Heads Will Roll: Tateru and mixed reality developers argue over her headcount of corporate sites in SL.
- Wild horses: Tech talk for keeping your sculpties galloping, not bubbling over.
- The Second Life of Yippee Ka Yay: Where does the real Bruce Willis end and the avatar Bruce Willis begin? Dannyboy Lightfoot, who knows both personally, offers his behind-the-scenes take.
- Sex and the single server: Are the American Lindens adjusting the world's moral standards to those of other countries?
- Debating over Virtual Venezuela: In parallel with protests in Caracas, avatars of real Venezuelans protest Chavez's closing of a major TV station. In Comments, some suggest a CIA conspiracy behind the scenes, implying that the Venezuelan protest in general is virtual. In response, actual Venezuelans show up, and explain their point of view. A metaverse protest over a real world event, in other words, has provoked a debate over how real the event itself is.